Which agency monitors notifiable diseases in the United States?
A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
B) Environmental Protection Agency
C) Food and Drug Administration
D) Homeland Security
Ans: A) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
You might also like to view...
Chemical signals such as __________ have roles in
social communication. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
When a neuron is at rest,
a. there is a voltage difference across the membrane of about ?70 millivolts. b. the interior is positively charged. c. it is responding to a stimulus. d. the fluid outside the membrane has more sodium and less potassium than the cytoplasm. e. axons are firing at a faster rate.
Dissociation elements (Ds) in plants are examples of
A) activator transposons that can direct their own transposition. B) nonautonomous elements that require activation by an autonomous element. C) mutator genes that increase the spontaneous mutation frequencies of other genes. D) repeated sequences that are targeted by a transposase. E) Both B and C
In Texas, a man showed up at a medical facility claiming that he felt drunk when he had not ingested any alcohol. Indeed his blood alcohol measured 0.37, many times the legal limit
Although he was a home brewer, he claimed that this intoxication had been happening often without his drinking any alcohol. Which of these hypotheses and actions might be most useful in diagnosing this problem? A) His home brew concoctions have created a type of alcohol that lasts a long time. Have him refrain from home brewing for a week and recheck his blood alcohol. B) He might have recently had a round of antibiotics that killed the bacteria that usually live in his gut and allowed a yeast species to overgrow. Put him on probiotics and a low carb diet for a week and recheck his blood alcohol. C) The fumes from the alcohol that he is using as a cleaning solution might be getting into his bloodstream. Ask him if he is using alcohol externally. D) Maybe he feels drunk because he has been eating mushrooms that have sprouted during this very wet weather. Check him for fungal toxins.